Posted on 01/10/2005 7:50:29 PM PST by neverdem
We keep getting a recorded message calling asking us to call another toll free number and it says emphatically, "This is not a sales call." Sure it isn't.
All our bills are paid up, so I figure if they really want to talk to me they will have an actual person call.
We keep getting that too. I thought it was because we shut off our T-mobile account and still need to pay off the old balance. I have a long distance alert, so know to answer when I hear a double ring.
Right....and I found it REALLY odd awhile ago that that very message played during a hold to my ISP's "Connection Problem" menu choice!!
Like "duh..."
Clemenza to Citibank customer service: "So how's the weather in Bangalore?"
I wouldn't bother mentioning it to them -
When they say " This call may be monitored..."
I just assume they are giving ME permission to tape THEM.
I am using it to assure the quality of THEIR offer.
Thanks!
Well, if you figure out who it is let me know. LOL
We don't have any outstanding bills and this last time they called (yesterday) it said some kind of financial services- usually that means bill collector. Like I said, if they want to get in touch with us they can have a real person call or send a letter.
What gets me is that they don't even say who they are calling for. We constantly get wrong # calls from banks, so I don't know if someone has their # listed wrong with their bank or what. When I told one woman from a bank she had a wrong # she actually had the nerve to ask me if I was sure. Um..yeah, I think I know my own name. Even if I was lying, why would I just suddenly confess?
Anytime I call anyplace I get an automated voice telling me my call may be monitored. I don't really care, I just wish I could speak to a human being. I am on Indianas no call list and I am not bothered at all by telemarketers. It's usually places I call that are monitoring me. ON the other hand, I do get automated calls from certain companies, credit card companies, etc who leave me messages. Companies don't even answer their own phones anymore. jeez.
I love it when creditors use automated services to call me. If I don't speak to a human immediately, I hang up.
I can't get a human being when I call my bank. It's so frustrating.
That is so weird! I work for a call center who speaks with other call centers on a daily basis. This young lady named "Monica" with a bank called (she had an Indian accent), and she told me: "All we need is Pheobe!" At first I had no clue what she was talking about, then she reminded me that the female "Friends" are Rachel, Monica and Pheobe.
I thought she just liked the show. Maybe I'm wrong?
I got a new cell phone a couple months ago. It was funny to get a call from Bank of America asking for someone named Peter. When I told them they had the wrong number they just repeated the information they had, asked if that was my number and to confirm that I did not know this Peter guy. They were very polite about it and I haven't heard from them again. Although I assume I have heard from Peter's girlfriends a couple times. They always seem surprised to hear me answering the phone.
The Gas company sent me a bill for having to turn off then turn back on my gas when I got my new stove. So now every time I call them and get placed on hold, I send them a bill for the time I waste. Since I have my own business and official looking letterhead and invoices, I'm such someone will send a check.
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